“…In fact the only decent academic study that I can find on how conditions at meetings can diminish brain power is a somewhat unexpected one. It is a paper that was given one of last year’s Ig Nobel Prizes (handed out for research “that makes people laugh – then think”). Its title: The effect of acute increase in urge to void on cognitive function in healthy adults. Or, to put it more urgently, how the need to pee affects our brains.”
—Lucy Kellaway, in her Financial Times essay called “Meetings of minds are effectively a tool for dulling them“